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Kris and Thom discuss the newest episode of GAME OF THRONES – THE DOOR. We also shed a few tears, bandy about a few theories and talk a bit of nerdy news.

ROBOT KRAKEN is a semi regular podcast by two indie artists, Kristopher McClanahan of Deeply Dapper and Thom Chiaramonte of the Third Rail Design Lab. We get together and talk about comics, movies, working the table at comic cons, life in this nerdy wonderland, and whatever mumblings from the deep we come across. You can find out more about us, contact us or follow along our journey at robot-kraken.com

Marvel’s getting flack for this obviously untrue stunt reveal that Cap has always been a HYDRA agent… I think it’s some sort of pushback on how DC hasn’t gotten a break over the last few years in terms of comics storytelling reputation (despite several good writers on several good books) but anyway.

So we had Force Awakens night last Friday. Neither kid had seen it yet.

Zoe was amped up all week…

We actually used the Watch with BB-8 program mode on the BB-8 and it was not obtrusive. He sort of wiggled and moaned during particularly intense scenes or when the on-screen BB-8 was like hearing Finn lie, for example.

The next morning, I surprised them with a Star Wars figure bounty. THIS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME.

Watching the kids play takes me back.

I entitled this pic, which Zoe took, “Powered by Nope”

The morning after THAT, this is what I found in the dining room.

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Need for Speed: Rivals on the PS4.
Just as I was about to abandon console gaming (again) (lackluster experience with FPS and adventure games due to limited time and skill) I got a racing game and I’m back at it! Still only on Saturday nights, but hot damn, I love a good racer with cops and robbers and such. Hence my sweet, sweet license plate.

Plus, I committed to Overwatch so when that comes I’ll have something to say about it.

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Finally, my latest Lego bot cobbled together from our bins:

You all know my penchant by know of sorting bricks by color and in separate compartments. The REAL deal is sorting out the joints. The connectimagoos that allow for the setting out of limbs and turrets and necks and such. Everything that allows you to break the cartesian coordinate grid XYZ. That’s my ongoing mission: pulling those parts just as I’ve pulled all the speciality bits I use for antennae and hoses and weirdness.

I love this painting from John Schoenherr… decades and decades old. Love it. Desktop screen.

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According to THIS piece of vapornews, Wolverine 3 will feature the infamous-ish villainous gang, the REAVERS. Back in my day, they WERE a thing. The Morlock tunnels purge, ANgel clipped, etc. Then they became just whatever.http://geektyrant.com/news/a-villainous … y-revealed

“Short story, the scientist create robots new edition by oscillator from himself. Mental peace is named robots this one had everything exactly like humans, except they don’t have emotions. Just and idea system decision as cause and effect. But one day The system in your mental peace born and result in conflict. It’s starting to have thoughts and feelings, as humans, it’s starting to feel in love with my boss and wants to take you along with the ideas to destroy the whole world to ashes.”

Netflix paid an obscene amount of money for the exclusive streaming rights to the Disney catalog. As someone who is a fan of, and supporter of, Netflix, which is the best of all possible paywall streaming scenarios, I think this is a good thing.http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/23/11745 … -september

Finally, I know I’m something of an apologist about SNL. I hang on for the 12:55am sketch (PST)… where the real lunacy might happen. This sketch, The Potato Chip, I remember just being floored by. It’s not a laugh out loud sketch for me, as many become. It was more like watching a surreal Coen Brothers scene. It was so specifically crafted and 100% committed to, just loved it. Anyway, here’s an oral history of the sketch…http://uproxx.com/tv/snl-potato-chip/3/

JoBlo reports rumors that, among the other things we’ve heard recently about the Spidey film, that the Tinkerer will be the one to build Vulture’s crap out of recovered Chitauri gear, and that Stark will be giving Spidey more upgrades including nonsensical web armpit wings a la classic Ditko. That makes no sense. But I like them, so.http://geektyrant.com/news/spider-man-h … d-villains

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Here, Mashable attempts to explain the ‘timey-wimey’ timeline screwyness leading into X-Men Apocatole. I have to say, this was a helpful video for me. Still confusing. But good effort.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvhHI38QzLM

Ep 016 – Burning Down The House! – Game Of Thrones Season Six, Episode Four Recap – Review

In Episode Sixteen of Robot Kraken, Thom and Kris review the newest episode of GAME OF THRONES [Spoiler alert!] in depth and discuss all sorts of cool geek news and artsy things – You might get what you’re after in this episode!

ROBOT KRAKEN is a semi regular podcast by two indie artists, Kristopher McClanahan of Deeply Dapper and Thom Chiaramonte of the Third Rail Design Lab. We get together and talk about comics, movies, working the table at comic cons, life in this nerdy wonderland, and whatever mumblings from the deep we come across. You can find out more about us, contact us or follow along our journey at robot-kraken.com

Well, looks like Jeff Goldblum wasn’t being courted for the Spider-Man villain after all. Apparently he’s been cast as the Grandmaster, one of Marvel’s space-LSD-era’s wierder demigods, and I’ll hazard a guess, the one responsible for a Planet Hulk type situation in Thor: Ragnarok.

Grandmaster, or as I used to call him, Gamesguy

Meanwhile, Tessa Thompson will play Valkyrie, Cate Blanchett is confirmed as Hela, and Karl Urban will be Skurge (oddly without Enchantress?)… Hey, I drew him awhile back, as seen above.

Even Lung admits that Powerless looks intriguing. I can’t believe we live in a world [cue trailer guy voice: IN A WORLD…] where we have rival DC and Marvel normal-people-in-supers-world comedies on the fall schedule. I was surprised at the cast that they put together here. Pretty impressive!http://geektyrant.com/news/powerless-tr … omics-show

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In an interview about his acclaimed new show Lady Dynamite, Hurwitz confrmed everyone’s on board for an AD Season 5… but more interesting to me at this juncture: they recut Season 4 as a 22 episode traditional season of AD with the cast and scenes interwoven and the narration redone. That sounds exciting…http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv … -dynamite/

When it was announced earlier this week that Supergirl was moving to the CW, many fans began to anticipate the crossover potential. CW is wasting no time, teasing a mega crossover in December with characters from Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, and Toles of Tomorrow (itself an ongoing crossover of sorts, I guess)…http://geektyrant.com/news/the-epic-sup … -to-the-cw

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Keaton is not only back in the running for the Vulture, but in final negotiations… I’m pleased with this possibility. Even if Keaton playing the Vulture is pretty on the nose. Or on the beak.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v … ing-891374

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This may be the coolest thing to come out of Age of Apocatole…

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Misc. Weird:

Witness: FUTURE ME!

This

THIS!

From my latest trip to Toys R Us:
This Ant-Man figure comes with a massive ant, which is DOPE

However, this Sadfleck Batman glider toy is sad.

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And with that, I leave you to your aches and pains. New Robot-Kraken Podcast coming soon!

Rafael Albuquerque posted this variant cover to his IG account, and people are speculating DC is transitioning some of Leto’s Joker look into the comics, as they did with Gadot’s WW. I note the decided lack of tattoos. I have no issue with the movies influencing the comics. If it works as a story, that’s all that matters. And I’m bored to tears with all of the traditional comic versions of Joker anyway. Side note: in the comments, people were whining about how every few years Joker seems to be a different character: robber, terrorist, serial killer, super villain… based on the conceits of the creative teams using him. Grant Morrison floated a great theory: that Joker has sequential MPD. They are all the same guy, reinventing himself.http://io9.gizmodo.com/is-this-our-firs … 1777376439

There’s a whole lot of nothing happening in this teaser for the Star Trek paywall series coming in 2017, other than that the blurb confirms new crews, villains, worlds, etc… reinforcing the rumors that it will be an anthology.http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-star-trek-tv … 1777441431

I don’t know what my problem is. I SHOULD like Assassins Creed. I like period adventure. I like sneaky shit. But the game I found overwhelming and hard to commit to (at least on one sitting) and while I love Michael Fassbender, and what I think of Marion Cotillard is not for general audience consumption, I’m not feeling this film. yet. I’ll try to be optimistic…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfJVoF5ko1Y

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Epic is surprisingly good for a kids’ CGI film. It ran cold for me in the trailers, feeling indistinct… but the design work is actually really impressive, and it’s up there for non Pixar stuff. Anyway, my favorite scene in the whole thing is this 9 second interaction with a fruit fly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASDidJZn4c

Big shake-up at WB’s films division… hopefully a good sign…
“The Burbank-based studio is making changes to the way it handles its DC Entertainment-centered films, giving oversight of the feature projects to a pair of executives and creating a dedicated division for the films. Current executive vp Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, DC’s chief content officer who successfully launched the comics label’s foray into television, will co-run the newly created DC Films, according to multiple sources.”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v … ce=twitter

In other news…

The latest Ghostbusters trailer offers a greater emphasis on the bugaboos. The demon selfies moment slays me. So to speak. Also, I see Hemsworth has more to do in this film after all. Not sure if that’s good or bad.http://geektyrant.com/news/new-trailer- … y-villains

Frank Grillo, directly off of the heat (literally) of Civil War, has signed on for a Netflix series called Wheelman, seemingly similar to the conceits of the Transporter series. You know, every time I look at Grillo, I see the Punisher casting that never was. I’d still go with Bernthal, having seen the results of Daredevil S02, but Grillo would be a strong second…http://variety.com/2016/film/news/frank … 201776816/

Here’s a video of Darwyn Cooke’s panel discussion last year in its entirety. I’m looking forward to listening to this on the ride home in the next few days. The summary of content looks great. Still glum about his passing.http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/05/17/ … ff-marvel/

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Lastly, if Iron Man 3 could have had a female villain, just imagine what Cap 2 could have brought us… heh.

Well, this previow of a tie-in sourcebook for Rogiue One answers several questions. The white cloaked badbro is Kressic, not Thrawn (and wears black pants to ruin his ensemble)… Tudyk is playing K-250, a former Empire enforcer droid… and there are new/old starfighter and TIE Fighter designs.http://geektyrant.com/news/cool-new-rog … er-details

Here’s a largely symbolic petition to get Netflix to pick up Agent Carter. I mean, because we’ve been groomed to believe that internet whining gets results. Sorry to sound pessimistic. But the cast, including Atwell, endorsed this petition, and yet she is already go for launch on another, less interesting series. So I assume this would only work if filmed later and for typical Netflix binge release. And if Netflix even wanted it. Of course I’d love it if so…https://www.change.org/p/netflix-save-a … =542306054

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Interesting story making the rounds this week: Shane Black says Maya was supposed to be the real Killian, but Marvel corporate nixed it due to fears over toy sales. In the Perlmutter era that was pretty typical. I like the actress and definitely wanted more form her in the film we got.http://uproxx.com/movies/shane-black-th … ron-man-3/